
auth: This categorized scripts related to user authentication. When we are talking about Nmap Scripts then we need to know that, not only vulnerability scanning ( vuln) there are lots of categories of Nmap scripts those are following: In the following screenshot we can see that we have an updated Nmap scripts database. Netmap kali update#
To update the Nmap scripts database we need to apply following command on our terminal window: sudo nmap -script-updatedb Then we are ready to scan for vulnerabilities with all Nmap scripts.
Vulnerability Scanning:- Pen testers also uses Nmap for exploitation in combination with other tools such as Metasploit or write a custom reverse shell code and combine Nmap's capability with them for exploitation.īefore jumping in to finding vulnerabilities using Nmap we must need to update the database of scripts, so newer scripts will be added on our database.
If there are any worms or malicious program infecting the network, it makes the attacker's job easy to short down and focus on taking over the machine remotely.
Backdoor detection:- Some of the Nmap scripts are written to identify the pattern of backdoors. Classier version detection of a service:- There are tons of services with multiple version details for the same service, so Nmap makes it more easy to identify the service.
Network Discovery:- This is the primary purpose that most of the people utilize Nmap for network port discovery, which we had learned in our " Nmap - The Network Mapper" article. NSE ( Nmap Scripting Engine) was developed for following reasons: Penetration testers uses Nmap's most powerful and flexible features, which allows them to to write their own scripts and automate various tasks.